Translations overview

A wiki can speak many languages. This page is the map of how it all fits together: what you can translate, how an admin turns on a new language, and where to go next for each job.

What you can translate

There are three kinds of things you can translate, and they each have their own guide:

• Page text. The words in your articles - headings, paragraphs, captions. Every page can be written again in another language.
• Labels and names. The short bits of text all over the wiki: buttons, menus, section titles, and item names. They live together in one big list people call the dictionary.
• Game data. Wikis built from a game keep facts in datasets, like a spreadsheet of spells or weapons. Text columns such as a spell name can be translated too.

Nothing ever breaks while a language is half done. If a word, a page, or a data field has no translation yet, visitors simply see the wiki’s main language instead. There are never blank holes.

Add a language

A wiki admin decides which languages the wiki speaks. It all happens in one place: the Languages card in Settings.

1. Open your wiki and click Manage.
2. Click Settings.
3. In the Languages card, tick the language you want to add.
4. Click Save changes.

Once a language is on, it shows up as a tappable pill everywhere you translate, and readers can switch to it. Now you are ready to start filling it in.

Pick a path

Choose the guide that matches what you want to do:

• Translate a page - rewrite one article’s text in another language.
• Translate labels and names - fill in the dictionary of buttons, menus, and item names.
• Translate game data - turn on a dataset column and translate its text fields.
• Import and export files - download the missing words, translate them anywhere, upload them back.
• Auto-translate with AI - let an AI assistant do the first pass for admins.
• How translations behave - what updates on its own and what a person’s edits keep forever.